Google will not answer to British court over UK privacy claim

Google has been called "arrogant and immoral" for arguing that a privacy claim brought by Internet users in the UK should not be heard by the British legal system. The search giant will tell the high court that it should throw out claims that it secretly tracked the browsing habits of millions of iPhone users.

In the first group claim brought against Google in the UK, Google has insisted that the lawsuit must be brought in California, where it is based, instead of a British courtroom. Hundreds of Internet users are preparing to sue Google if the test case gets the green light. Google is accused by the claimants of secretly monitoring their behavior by circumventing security settings on the iPhone, iPad and desktop versions of the Safari web browser.